Jaguar Shores is the successor to Intel's Falcon Shores AI accelerators — Gaudi ASICs and Xe-HPC GPUs united in a single lineup
While the industry anticipates the launch of its next-gen dedicated Gaudi 3 ASICs followed by Falcon Shores, both pushed into 2025; Intel has already revealed Jaguar Shores as the next successor in this lineup, per HPCwire. However, we aren't sure if Jaguar Shores will combine the CPU and GPU into a single platform, as was initially planned with Falcon Shores.
, The report says that Intel's Habana Labs division - probably unintentionally - revealed this codename during a technical workshop at the SC2024 conference. When I inquired for more details, Intel refused to comment, but that's expected since most specifications are likely not finalized by now.
For the uninitiated, Intel's current lineup includes dedicated ASICs termed "Gaudi," whose third iteration - Gaudi 3 - has been pushed back to 2025 and competes against Nvidia's last-gen Hopper-based H100. Intel's HPC and AI GPUs are side by side, and Ponte Vecchio currently sits in the world's third-fastest supercomputer, Aurora.
Intel merged these two families into a disaggregated XPU (CPU+GPU) codenamed "Falcon Shores" to further streamline its AI offerings. However, those plans have been axed, and Falcon Shores will arrive in a GPU-only configuration by late 2025. With that context in mind, we cannot say much about the design choices behind the upcoming Jaguar Shores.
